This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Today I've been working on rustic book projects, two variations of a coffee table design made from consecutively sawn spalted maple slabs. One variation has a base made from tree limbs using the Lee Valley-Veritas tenoner as shown in the first photo. The tops for both versions are textured on the edges using a rotary chisel as shown in the photo below. The patented rotary chisel is a lot like a router bit, but is intended for use in an air powered die grinder. I use a roto-zip as the source of power so I don't have the compressor noise to suddenly distract me. You use it like a tack hammer. A light tapping motion against the wood creates a random carved texture. It helps to pay attention to the wood grain and direction of rotation to get the smoothest cut.
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